How I work with families
The Love Praxis Approach
Every young person is making sense of who they are in the context of their relationships, experiences, and the world around them. I help families navigate those questions with curiosity, compassion, and respect, creating space for young people to develop a strong sense of agency while remaining deeply connected to the people who love them.
There is no single method, diagnosis, or roadmap that can fully explain what a young person or family is experiencing.
My role is not to fit your family into a predetermined approach. It is to understand the whole picture, draw from a wide range of evidence-informed practices, and help your family discover what will be most supportive for your unique situation.
Looking beyond the diagnosis
A diagnosis can be incredibly helpful. It can provide language, open doors to support, and help explain patterns that once felt confusing.
It is also only one part of a much larger story.
Together, we explore the relationships, strengths, values, developmental experiences, environment, culture, and life circumstances that shape your child's experience. My goal is not simply to understand a diagnosis, but to understand your child.
Supporting the whole family
Young people don't heal in isolation.
Parents, siblings, schools, therapists, psychiatrists, mentors, and communities all influence a family's journey.
Rather than focusing on one individual, I help families strengthen communication, deepen understanding, and build the relationships that allow everyone to move forward together.
Every young person is more than their hardest moment
Mental health challenges, neurodivergence, grief, trauma, difficult behaviors, and periods of crisis are real.
They are never the whole story.
I believe every young person carries strengths, values, gifts, relationships, and possibilities that deserve just as much attention as their struggles. Healing becomes more sustainable when young people are understood as whole human beings rather than defined by labels alone.
Honoring identity, culture, and lived experience
Growing up today is increasingly complex.
Young people are navigating questions of identity, belonging, purpose, relationships, technology, and an uncertain world while discovering who they are becoming.
Families may also be carrying experiences such as grief, adoption, divorce, cultural transitions, neurodivergence, questions around gender and sexuality, trauma, or other significant life events that shape how a young person understands themselves.
Having worked alongside young people and families across the United States, Latin America, Africa, and Asia, I approach every family with curiosity rather than assumptions. My role is not to impose a worldview or tell families what to believe. It is to create space for honest conversation, thoughtful discernment, and decisions that strengthen both individual agency and family connection.
Drawing from many disciplines
Every family deserves an approach as unique as they are.
My work draws from family systems thinking, trauma-informed and somatic practices, restorative approaches, positive psychology, values and identity exploration, contemplative practice, youth behavioral health, and years of supporting families through complex decisions.
Rather than following one model, I integrate what is most helpful for the family sitting in front of me.
The approach should always serve the family — not the other way around.
Collaborative care
No one professional holds every answer.
The strongest care often emerges when families, therapists, psychiatrists, schools, physicians, mentors, and other trusted adults work together.
I value collaborative, multidisciplinary care and regularly help families make sense of differing perspectives, coordinate support, and keep the whole picture in view.
Walking the full journey
Families rarely need just one conversation.
Needs evolve. Schools change. Treatment plans shift. Relationships grow. New questions emerge.
My work is built around accompaniment — walking alongside families through the different phases of their journey, helping them make thoughtful decisions, navigate uncertainty, and build the clarity to move forward with confidence.
Start where you are
The approach should always serve your family — not the other way around.
A first call is forty-five minutes, no charge, no pitch. You tell me what's happening, and we figure out together whether this is the right kind of support for your family right now.